Author: George Parker WinshipPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare book libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The John Carter Brown Library
Author: George Parker WinshipPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Rare book libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: John Carter Brown LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island: 1600-1658
Author: John Carter Brown LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages :
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The History of Greenland
Author: David CranzPublisher: London : Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown
ISBN:
Category : Eskimos
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Bibliotheca Americana
Author: John Carter BrownPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Author: The Dutch in the Americas, 1600-1800
Author: Wim KloosterPublisher: Providence, R.I. : John Carter Brown Library
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : nl
Pages : 136
Book Description
A narrative history with the catalogue of an exhibition of rare prints, maps, and illustrated books from the John Carter Brown Library.
African Kings and Black Slaves
Author: Herman L. BennettPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812295498
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
A thought-provoking reappraisal of the first European encounters with Africa As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast of West Africa, where they conducted business with African kingdoms that possessed significant territory and power. In the process, Iberians developed an understanding of Africa's political landscape in which they recognized specific sovereigns, plotted the extent and nature of their polities, and grouped subjects according to their ruler. In African Kings and Black Slaves, Herman L. Bennett mines the historical archives of Europe and Africa to reinterpret the first century of sustained African-European interaction. These encounters were not simple economic transactions. Rather, according to Bennett, they involved clashing understandings of diplomacy, sovereignty, and politics. Bennett unearths the ways in which Africa's kings required Iberian traders to participate in elaborate diplomatic rituals, establish treaties, and negotiate trade practices with autonomous territories. And he shows how Iberians based their interpretations of African sovereignty on medieval European political precepts grounded in Roman civil and canon law. In the eyes of Iberians, the extent to which Africa's polities conformed to these norms played a significant role in determining who was, and who was not, a sovereign people—a judgment that shaped who could legitimately be enslaved. Through an examination of early modern African-European encounters, African Kings and Black Slaves offers a reappraisal of the dominant depiction of these exchanges as being solely mediated through the slave trade and racial difference. By asking in what manner did Europeans and Africans configure sovereignty, polities, and subject status, Bennett offers a new depiction of the diasporic identities that had implications for slaves' experiences in the Americas.
Catalogue of the John Carter Brown Library in Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
Author: John Carter Brown LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Female American; or, The Adventures of Unca Eliza Winkfield
Author: Unca Eliza WinkfieldPublisher: Broadview Press
ISBN: 9781551112480
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
When it first appeared in 1767, The Female American was called a "sort of second Robinson Crusoe; full of wonders." Indeed, The Female American is an adventure novel about an English protagonist shipwrecked on a deserted isle, where survival requires both individual ingenuity and careful negotiations with visiting local Indians. But what most distinguishes Winkfield's novel is her protagonist, a woman who is of mixed race. Though the era's popular novels typically featured women in the confining contexts of the home and the bourgeois marriage market, Winkfield's novel portrays an autonomous and mobile heroine living alone in the wilds of the New World, independently interacting with both Native Americans and visiting Europeans. Moreover, The Female American is one of the earliest novelistic efforts to articulate an American identity, and more specifically to investigate what that identity might promise for women. Along with discussion of authorship issues, the Broadview edition contains excerpts from English and American source texts. This is the only edition available.